Also, Doug Wilson says the team won’t be pursuing either Justin or Drew Daniels, twins at Northeastern who were drafted (Justin in 3rd round, Drew in 7th) in 2008. That same draft, however, did produce Wingels and Jason Demers.

Think that completes the inventory.

Precise salary information not surfacing yet on the new contracts. Reports that Wingels will get $700,000 and $850,000 are pretty much on target, I’m advised. Expect the figure for Desjardins to be in the low $600,000s and the deal for Braun to approximate the $1.25 million cap hit in the Demers contract. Will update as more information becomes available.

A scattershot look at the events to this point.

*****No surprises with the three contract extensions. All were players who ended last season in the staff’s good graces after fairly consistent performances. All were also players drafted late or, in the case of Desjardins, not at all. That can help make contract talks go more smoothly.

GM Doug Wilson also talked about their game.

“We talked about being aggressive and the energy and going after people — that’s exactly how he plays,” he said of Desjardins. “Same with Tommy Wingels. You take a look at the people we’ve added, I think it’s fairly consitent with the identity that we want to re-establish.”

As for Braun specifically, here’s what Wilson had to say.

“We’re very pleased with his progress. We all know supply and demand for defensemen. . . . How he played, how he’s evolved through our system. Watdching him play in Worcester, watching him play here. He went to the world champiohshpis.

“I do get an awful lot of calls on our players and he is a guy a lot of people have interest in, but he fits in very well for us and is an important part for us going forward.”

******On the decision not to bring back Ferriero, whose seven goals last season in San Jose included four game-winners.

“It ended up being a mutual thing,” Wilson said. “I think Benn feels hes at a point where he needs an opportunity somewhere else. We wish Benn the best. He played hard for us, he just couldn’t quite solidify a regular spot and we have a lot of depth at the center position and right side.

“I think it’s just one of those things whee maybe he can get an opportunity somewhere else. When players pay their dues and work hard, ideally we’d like them to play for us. But if it’s not going to be us, we try and not hold them back or stand in the way.”

*****On the decision to extend the QO to Alex Stalock, but not Tyson Sexsmith.

“Alex has come all the way back (from his leg injury) and it certainly tells you how we feel about him. It’s a great story and he’s a very competitive kid.

“In Sexsmith’s case, we have a logjam of goalies and in fairness to him, with Stalock and Sateri probably being in Worcester this year, to give him the opportunity to go somewhere else made sense to us. We’ve got other goaltenders coming underneath.

“We did explore at the request of (Sexsmith) if there was trade possibilities and it was a very limited response.”

*****On the expectations the team has for James Sheppard:

“We had a very specific plan when we acquired him . . . he’s working really hard, had a very good summer and we expect him to come into training camp and compete for a spot on this team. But when you miss this period of time, it’s not a rush. We knew what we were doing and what the time frame could be.

“When he’s healthy and ready to compete, he will.”

*****Wilson would not talk specifics about any of how own UFAs. Asked if he expected to be active on July 1, the GM said, yes — though not necessarily in a deal that will be completed in the first 24 hours.

*****Changing the subject.

I used that exhibition game with the touring Russian Legends on Wednesday night as a good excuse to catch up with Evgeni Nabokov yesterday and the resulting story should be posted online right about now. Look for the link in the right-hand column.

Nabokov turns 37 next month so he wasn’t even alive when Canada and the USSR met in the 1972 Summit Series, the 40th anniversary of which is the reason that get-together Wednesday night is taking place at Sharks Ice.

(Before I forget: About 700 tickets will go on sale at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sharks Ice. Organizers are expecting them to be snapped up fairly quickly. Reminder that all money raised goes to the Junior Sharks Scholarship Fund. Other former Sharks expected to play are Owen Nolan, Curtis Brown and Kyle McLaren.)

It’s a reach, but this is Nabokov’s first “appearance” in San Jose since being told two years ago that he no longer fit in the Sharks’ plans. That’s addressed in the story, which will also appear in Wednesday’s print edition; but here’s his more complete answer when I asked the goalie, whose family still calls San Jose home, if there was still any lingering ill will from what went down in 2010.

“Let’s be honest,” he said. “The bottom line is it’s a business and some decisions need to be made. I had a lot of opportunities to deliver the cup and I wasn’t able to. I understand that they had to go to a different direction for whatever the reasons were. I’m not sure about that.

“To me it was too bad that we came up short a little bit for the city, for the fans, because I think these fans are actually pretty unbelievable. That’s the only regret I have, that I wasn’t able to help the team win the cup.”

Nabokov had a 19-18-3 record with a 2.55 GAA and .913 save percentage wth the Islanders last year. He won the starting job and signed a one-year, $2.75 deal to return.

Nassau Coliseum, of course, isn’t sold out every night the way HP Pavilion is. But it didn’t take long for Nabokov to get caught up in the big rivalry back there.

“They don’t have a full house every night,” he said, “but when the Rangers are in town, that’s a full house and a pretty big game.”

Nabokov, by the way, gets out on the ice every now and then this summer at a Bay Area rink. And among those he’ll practice with is another ex-Shark with Russian roots who comes back each summer, Alex Korolyuk.

David Pollak

David Pollak has been following the NHL forever and at the Mercury News as an editor or reporter since 1987. For almost a decade he wrote about the Sharks as the paper's Fan in the Stands before joining the sports department in 2001. He became the Sharks beat writer before the 2007-08 season and began this blog at that time. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PollakOnSharks.

Stop all this talk of why you want Mitchell back PLEASE.
Did you not watch The same games as did? Please let him
go. Now!

puckmastr

Parenteau and Stempniak – gettable acquisitions who would add consistency and experience and have lots of years still left on the tires. Love Shane Doan, but not sure it makes sense to keep adding older players. Hope we keep Winnick and Vandermeer, but given how little playing time the latter got during the last part of the season suspect he won’t be sticking around.
All of the other UFAs should go. I don’t share the enmity for Torrey Mitchell that is widespread in these pages, but he has never realized his potential here and it’s time for him to move on…guys like this end up succeeding in places like Nashville or Florida where they actually get coached.

Long Time No Cup

Dear Mr. Cluster Puck,

Yes, except for New York Ranger fans, you are the only person in North America who would trade Prust for Clowe.

Tom (fm Quinzee)

Clowe is the type of player the Sharks don’t have enough of. When DW criticized the team for not responding to the Blues at the end of game 2, does anyone think he was calling out Clowe, or was it the rest of the team?

Prust, on the other hand, is one vowel short of being famous, as in Marcel Proust, who wrote, among other things, “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.” Guy couldn’t skate worth a damn, though.

ogie oglethorpe

Funny…people calling for Steve Ott to be signed. YIKES! Let’s add Sean Avery in a trade, too. That would be enough to make me question my loyalty to the Sharks. If you have a passive team, adding a d-head or 2 doesn’t make you aggressive. It does create embarassment, though…

Hockeynut

Wow, pretty tough to get excited about any of these “signings” it looks like Wilson is determined to bring back the same team pretty much intact for 2012-13 season. Oh goody.

beerslayer

For whatever it’s worth, I have no objection to keeping Mitchell here. While I agree he’ll probably never be a 30-goal scorer (though I remember many saying the same about Cheechoo also), his speed is not something that’s easily or cheaply replaced.

He (Mitchell) has the potential to be a very good penalty killer, given the proper coaching. If he only scores 5 goals a year, but they’re all shorthanded in key situations, that’s perfectly OK with me. I seem to recall that he and Grier played well with each other on the PK during that one season when they were paired up.

beerslayer

Oh, and if the Sharks were to sign Steve Ott, my 20-year fan history with this team would come to an abrupt end. I can think of nobody I want on this team LESS than Ott. No way could I ever cheer for him.

Hockeynut

Cmon beerslayer, if you survived the Marchment and Belfour signings, your loyalty would survive Ott. Now Torres? That would cause even me to pause.

beerslayer

Hockeynut: I had no problem with either of the signings you mentioned. I didn’t mind Marchment at all because at the time I thought we lacked toughness on the blue line. And I had no problem at all with Belfour until AFTER he ditched us for Dallas at his earliest possible opportunity.

Ott vs. Torres: hmmm… I thought there was no-one else I’d want on the Sharks less than Ott, but I hadn’t considered Torres. That’s pretty close.